Lectures  

Katerina Peristeri - "Amphipolis" The excavations at the Kasta Tomb 
Date: Friday 22 May 2015 [19:00]
Venue: Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS
Details: An illustrated lecture in English by Katerina Peristeri, Head Archaeologist of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Serres, Macedonia, Greece. Free to the public but please confirm attendance by 14 May 2015 to 07904 086677 or sec@macedonia.org.uk Reception to follow.
Organised by the Macedonian Society of Great Britain. 
Due to high demand for this event bookings will be kept on a first come first server basis. 

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Privatizations: Auction and Market design during a Crisis
Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 [18:00]
Venue: Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, 1st floor, Cowdray House European Institute, LSE, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE Details: Lecture by Vasiliki Skreta, Professor at the Economics Department, University College London 
This talk has three main goals. First, offer a framework to think about the costs and benefits of privatizations, based both on theory and on empirical evidence. Second, provide insights from economic theory on how best privatizations should be organized. Third, give an account of privatizations in Greece, both pre and during the crisis.